Our first batch of meat chickens, we did a nose and yanked the head off and the broomstick method. However we are about to butcher our first ducks soon. We prefered using a noose over the broomstick but we are concerned doing that method with ducks. We want to try slitting the throat with a good...
Is there any ointment I can add to possibly help this duckling I hatched eyes? It can't see or is not responding like it can see. This is after I flushed it with water.
I never hatched eggs before. I want to hatch out my cayuga duck eggs. The problem is I get 1 cayuga a day.
My current plan is to collect eggs for 1 week and then place them in the incubator. I olan to keep doing that ubtil my i cubator is full. I will have different weeks of eggs going into...
There was a big miscommunication with our fence guy. He did great work for our chainlink backyard. I called him and asked if he also installed cattle wire. I showed him the fence wire we had purchase. He gave us a quote to do the entire thing. It was out of our budget so we asked him to just...
Anyone going to be at the Heart of the Ozark poultry show 2024? We recently recieved 5 quality cayugas from MT. My daughter (8) will show 3 and I will show 2. This will be our first big show. She won Grand Champion waterfowl with our hatchery pekin at our county fair. My son won 1st with his...
Google images have let me down repeatedly over the years. Nothing seems to be quite right. These are small roses in bunches. Like a little bit larger than a quarter for blooms. Any ideas?? This plant came with pit home when we purchased it 8 years ago.
I'm not sure how to go about this drain for the ducks pool. I don't want my hand to go in the gross duck water. I can't find a stopper that would cover the entire hole. I'm planning on getting a plastic gutter splash guard to out under the tub. There will be more rocks around and underneath the tub.
This is our duck run. We are not handy at all. We need to replace this latch. Our door only swings out. With the current latch, we cannot cover the space between the door and side with wood without leaving a huge gap because the latch needs room. I also need it to be easy for a 7 and 11 yo to...
We finished our Duck coop/run. What would you put for the floor?? It is currently just dirt with straw in the coop area. I put an old piece of roofing panel under the waters to help the dirt not wash away. The ducks have already made little mud holes and it's only been 2 weeks full time.
The...
We are very new to owning any type of poultry and we started off with ducks. We are trying to raccon proof this run completely. It is still in the process...
We are stuck on trying to fix the gap between the door. How do we close/cover the gap.
We came up with a board on the inside at bottom...